In the Kula, an intermediary gift given as a token of good faith, with the assumption that a larger gift will be given later.

Basi

Baloma

The taboos of the magic bundle (lilava). The term for general taboos about the Kula.

Bomala Lilava

Bwaga’u

Doga

Dogina

Functionalism

Giyorokaywa

Giyotanawa

Gwara

Kabigidoya

Kalipoulo

Kaributu

Kayga’u

Kewo’u

Kukwanebu

Kula’wala

Libogwo

Lilava

Lili’u

Masawa

Megwa

Mulukwausi

Murimuri

Mwali

Mwalolo

Mwasila

Pokala

Primitive Economic Man

Puwaya

Sagali

Soulava

Talo’i

Tanarere

Tapwana

Tasasoria

Tauva’u

Tokway

Toli-

Toli’uvalaku

Toliwaga

U’ula

Usagelu

Uvalaku

Vaygu’a

Vaga

Waga

Wayugo

Wosi

Yotile

Yoyova

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Anthropology

Humanities

Books About Art

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Business & Economics

Society

Community

Natural World

Science & Nature

Sociology

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Introduction-Chapter 3

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Chapters 4-6

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Chapters 7-10

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Chapters 20-22

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Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)

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